Can my country afford a JE vaccination program? (module 5)

• Determining the costs and requirements to finance a new JE vaccination program is the final, essential step in deciding to introduce JE vaccine into a national immunization program.

• Before introduction, countries should analyze and update comprehensive multi-year plans, budgets, and financing plans to include JE vaccines. • The World Health Organization (WHO) provides several useful and standardized tools for performing vaccine introduction costing analyses, which focus on affordability and sustainability. • Affordability focuses on a country’s ability to cover up-front costs, whereas financial sustainability looks at the long-term financial impact of adding new vaccines on the immunization budget. Both are important for all countries to consider.